The words chosen by MSM journalists to describe the Breslan story are illuminating.

Start with the lede. This was not an act of terror; it was a siege. Y’know, like the Nazi siege of Leningrad. Or maybe the FBI’s siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco. In any case, the active, aggressive role belongs not to the combatants in the school–they were “besieged”– but to the Russian security forces.

Then look at the sequence of events. Here I focus on the BBC’s coverage ( Inever use the US press for breaking news because, unlike non-US sources, they almost never have reporters on-site. The BBC, as shitty as their reporting is, at least had three reporters on the scene as it unfolded).

During the crisis, the BBC reported the shooting by the Russian forces but failed to mention that this was only inresponse to, first, the bombs set off by the terrorists, and second, the semi-automatic turkey shoot of fleeing children by the terrorists. Not even mentioned, let alone with proper sequence.

And now we have the final version: a “siege”, with the following key phases (verbatim as per the BBC’s website, news.bbc.co.uk):

Standoff|Plight|Flashpoint|Assault|Escape|End

No mention of slaughter, killing, terror. Instead we have the hostages’ (or maybe the hostage-takers’?) “plight.” Detonation of bombs, suicide bombings by two female terrorists, spray-shooting of children with autmatic weapons? That’s a “flashpoint.”

Ah, but the Russians’s defensive response? That’s an “assault.”

My point here is that European elites still, after four years of unspeakable atrocities, after so much sacrifice, sweat, blood tears, do not get it. Screw those morons. We must and will find allies who recognize that this is war and that the adveersary seeks a fight to the finish.

Flashpoint, my ass.